Manuscripts

Politics - Los Angeles City - Clippings

Description: Approx. 60 items: selection of LAT news stories and editorials on city politics, 1920 - 1933, focusing on elections, mayors, mayoral candidates, and other city officeholders.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1920 - 1933
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
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Politics - Los Angeles City

Manuscripts

Approx. 20 items: clips and copies from LAT and other L.A. media on L.A. mayors, city government, relations between the Press and politics locally, journalism's influence on public opinion, etc. Notable items: pp. 33 - 47 from "Los Angeles Times and Public Opinion," a 1929 thesis written at Claremont Colleges by John Homer Williams ; pp. 207 - 228, copied from book The Fragmented Metropolis, L.A. - 1850 - 1930, by Robert Fogelson, 1967 ; 58-pp. college (?) paper, written for a Political Science class (1971), "The role and influence of the Los Angeles Times in City politics...", by Rich Wiseman.

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Los Angeles - City Government

Manuscripts

Approx. 12 items: LAT article copy, 6/10/1931, "Fifth official city flag proposed" ; LAT editorial, 9/14/1964, "Time for a charter change?" ; LAT edit., 10/25/1966, "Reforming Los Angeles' City Charter" ; LAT edit., 11/21/1969, "Charter reform debate" ; LAT edit., 2/23/1970, "Hollywood faces...harsh facts" ; a 1973 exchange of letters betw. Samuel Leask, ex-City Administrative Officer and James Bassett of LAT ; article copy, Los Angeles (mag), 12/1980, "His dishonor, the Mayor" (on A.C. Harper, L.A. mayor 1906 - 1909) ; LAT tear sheet, articles on new City Council District (1st), 1/18/1987 ; LAT article tear sheet, list & brief bio sketch of L.A. mayors, 1850 to 1988, 9/6/1988 ; article copy, Times Mirror (mag), Summer 1989, "A tale of two cities" (L.A. and N.Y.).

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Los Angeles - Los Angeles Times Clippings on

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Approx. 40 items: a selection of LAT articles and letters to the editor on tourism, land booms, water availability, climate and other subjects, often featuring the strong strain of boosterism present in LAT coverage of the time.

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Los Angeles - City Planning

Manuscripts

Approx. 45 items: clips and copies of LAT editorials and news stories on city planning and urban renewal, especially in the central city area, 1912 to the 1970s. Notable items: booklet, Annual Report - Board of City Planning Commissioners, Los Angeles, 1934-35 ; booklet, A Report to Honorable Fletcher Bowron, Mayor of Los Angeles (City Planning Commission), 12/4/1942 ; 48-pp. booklet, Accomplishments - City Planning Commission, 1957; 18-pp. booklet, City Charter - excerpts relating to City Planning, 1959 ; booklet of LAT reprints, originally published during 4/1966, "Urban renewal...salvation or new blight?"; undated brochure (ca. 1990), Central City West, produced by Center City West Associates.

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Crime - Los Angeles

Manuscripts

Approx. 20 items: LAT news stories and editorials , 1924 - 1933, on gangsters, gambling, etc., in Los Angeles and nationwide; copied booklet, Ghouls Guide to Los Angeles, date unknown (1954>); 17-pp. copied From a Reporter's Notebook, "The Black Dahlia...1947 - 1987," by Will Fowler.

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Prohibition

Manuscripts

Approx. 30 items: selection of LAT news stories and editorials on the issue of alcohol prohibition and the specific period of federal Prohibition, the Volstead Act (1920 - 1933) ; many clips on Mabel Walker Willebrandt, U.S. Asst. Atty. Gen., due to her role in enforcing Prohibition (several on her secret divorce) ; 3-pp. biography on Willebrandt ; related material.

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